Police credit a call from an alert tipster in southeast Washington on Tuesday morning for the capture of a prisoner who escaped custody at a northern Virginia hospital hours earlier with a guard's gun.

A prisoner being treated at a northern Virginia hospital wrestled with a guard and took her gun before escaping in a hospital gown and fleeing in a carjacked vehicle, prompting a hospital lockdown and a massive search, police said.

Ensuring that Chippewa County residents will not have to worry about this particular sex offender again, Judge James Lambros of the 50th Circuit Court handed down a minimum sentence of 60 years to a 35-year-old Drummond Island man early...